A Review of Evidence that Equine Influenza Viruses Are Zoonotic

Tai Xie; Benjamin D Anderson; Ulziimaa Daramragchaa; Maitsetset Chuluunbaatar; Gregory C Gray

doi:10.3390/pathogens5030050

A Review of Evidence that Equine Influenza Viruses Are Zoonotic

Pathogens. 2016 Jul 12;5(3):50. doi: 10.3390/pathogens5030050.

Authors

Tai Xie^{1

2}, Benjamin D Anderson³, Ulziimaa Daramragchaa⁴, Maitsetset Chuluunbaatar⁵, Gregory C Gray⁶

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Tai.xie@duke.edu.
² Faculty of Health Service, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China. Tai.xie@duke.edu.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Benjamin.anderson2@duke.edu.
⁴ National Center for Zoonotic Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ulzima_d@yahoo.com.
⁵ National Center for Zoonotic Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ch.maitsetseg@gmail.com.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Gregory.gray@duke.edu.

Abstract

Among scientists, there exist mixed opinions whether equine influenza viruses infect man. In this report, we summarize a 2016 systematic and comprehensive review of the English, Chinese, and Mongolian scientific literature regarding evidence for equine influenza virus infections in man. Searches of PubMed, Web of Knowledge, ProQuest, CNKI, Chongqing VIP Database, Wanfang Data and MongolMed yielded 2831 articles, of which 16 met the inclusion criteria for this review. Considering these 16 publications, there was considerable experimental and observational evidence that at least H3N8 equine influenza viruses have occasionally infected man. In this review we summarize the most salient scientific reports.

Keywords: H3N8; epidemiology; equine influenza; influenza A; zoonotic diseases.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

D43 TW009373/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States